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Selfridges launch Project Ocean

Posted by Willie - 11 May 2011 at 6:00pm - Comments

Project Ocean: Selfridges celebrate, fundraise and reach out to save our seas

There’s a big splash on Oxford Street today as Selfridges - the world’s best department store, on the busiest shopping street - has been taken over for five weeks to help save our seas with Project Ocean.

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A change in tuna policy: Morrisons move means all UK supermarkets switch

Posted by Willie - 12 April 2011 at 9:35am - Comments

Tuna caught in the Pacific Ocean

Brilliant news! Morrisons has announced a new policy on tinned tuna, committing to stop sourcing fish caught via destructive fishing methods: this means that now all major UK supermarkets have now changed their policy towards being more sustainable. This leaves John West as the last major supplier left that still needs to change its tuna.

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Hugh's Fish Fight - round two!

Posted by Willie - 4 April 2011 at 12:37pm - Comments

Filming Hugh's Fish Fight

In the three months since Hugh's Fish Fight screened on Channel 4 there's been a frenzy of activity in the fish trade, thanks to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's investigation into the way our fish is caught and sold. If you missed the series the first time round and are wondering what all the fuss was about, the series is being repeated starting tonight at 10pm on More 4.

Article tagged as: CFP, discards, fish fight, hugh fearnley-whittingstall, hugh's fish fight, sustainable seafood

Tell the government to buy sustainable fish

Posted by Willie - 9 March 2011 at 5:46pm - Comments

Hugh and Jamie during filming of the Fish Fight series

Hugh and Jamie during filming of Fish Fight outside Westminster

"Greenest government ever." That’s the phrase that’s already been used to slap the current UK administration a fair few times. It’s an ambitious claim, but it seems even on the black-and-white issues UK ministers can’t quite bring themselves to go green.

Article tagged as: bycatch, government, overfishing, sustain, sustainable fish

Fish discards are indefensible, but will the EU ban them?

Posted by Willie - 2 March 2011 at 6:23pm - Comments

If yesterday’s news is supposed to be today’s fish and chip wrappers, then today we have an odd scenario: your fish supper is probably wrapped in a hefty helping of column inches on fishing.

Article tagged as: CFP, discards, EU, fishing, fishing quotas, overfishing

What we need to do to stop the pointless waste of discarded fish

Posted by Willie - 24 February 2011 at 12:38pm - Comments

Now you see it...: cod caught in the North Sea and about to be discarded

Discards are disgusting. No-one with any sense can support the catching, killing, and throwing away of fish. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Fish Fight – which Greenpeace has supported from the outset - has at long last made the waste of perfectly good fish a national outrage. It is a pointless waste of life, and potential resources. It’s abhorrent whether you eat fish or don’t.

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Cracks starting to show - Japan's whaling fleet may leave Southern Ocean early

Posted by Willie - 16 February 2011 at 7:46pm - Comments

A Greenpeace boat tries to prevent whaling ship the Nisshin Maru refuelling in t

A Greenpeace boat tries to prevent whaling ship the Nisshin Maru from refuelling in the Southern Ocean, 2008

In this day and age, commercial whaling is out-of-date and should be out-of-the-question. Sadly it isn’t, but maybe the news that the Japanese whaling fleet might be cutting short its stay in the Southern ocean is cause for some optimism.

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Nobu: the celebrity restaurant still peddling endangered tuna

Posted by Willie - 11 February 2011 at 12:23pm - Comments

Celebrity-favourite sushi restaurant Nobu serves endangered bluefin tuna

This weekend Nobu Matsuhisa, the eponymous chef behind the celebrity-favourite restaurant Nobu, will be in London. For a mere £260 you could enjoy a unique dining experience, apparently. I wonder what’s on the menu. Delicious black rhino, perhaps? Or tasty Amur tiger? Maybe some melt-in-the-mouth mountain gorilla?

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Princes' tuna policy doesn't do what it says on the tin

Posted by Willie - 15 October 2010 at 10:15am - Comments

Two whole years in the making, Princes' new 'sustainable seafood statement' was supposed to address many issues. Specifically it was supposed to be explaining just what the company intended to do to drag itself from the bottom of our tinned tuna league table by explaining the measures they were implementing to ensure they were sourcing their tinned tuna responsibly.